CEO Right-hand Intern

**Expected internship start date: Jan 2025**

**About Upflow**:
Upflow revolutionizes the way B2B businesses get paid, unlocks owed cash reserves, and empowers B2B companies to grow better.

Most modern, fast-growing companies are fully focused on sales growth and retention and struggle to maintain focus on cash collection. This leads to thousands of unpaid invoices, broken communications, outdated payment methods, and a negative customer experience. As a result, cash flow suffers, and growth is inhibited. Upflow is the modern collections hub that manages all data, analytics, communications and payments to improve cash flows.

We are a product-led organization launched in 2018 and trusted by hundreds of companies across the US and EMEA, including Lattice, Front, Iziwork, ProductBoard, and more. We're also backed by leading investors (YCombinator, 9yards, eFounders) and top business angels from N26, Square, Mercury, Uber, and Netsuite.

We're distributed across three continents and rapidly expanding. It's a perfect time to join if you're looking for an exciting personal growth opportunity and international experience.

**Your role at Upflow**:
Joining Upflow as a CEO Right-Hand Intern, you're a key player in turning our vision into reality and ensuring our leadership sails smoothly. This role is designed for a driven individual eager to dive deep into strategic planning, cross-department collaboration, and executive-level communication.

Reporting directly to our Finance Director and receiving guidance from our fractional Chief of Staff, you will:

- ** Coordinate** **strategic planning activities**, including the animation of quarterly OKR planning sessions
- ** Monitor our progress toward goals** and spearhead initiatives to **enhance transparency** across the organization with data
- ** Oversee top management and company-wide meetings** and communication, prepare meeting notes, interface with internal stakeholders, and ensure follow-up
- Manage & **prepare communication for external stakeholders**
- ** Perform ad-hoc cross-functional projects**, diving into specific topics to support a specific function of the business

This position is based in our Paris offices, close to Grands Boulevards.

**Who you are**:

- Highly **coachable**, always ready to learn, and proactive in putting new knowledge into action.
- ** Proficient with slide presentation**, able to craft compelling decks adjusted to different audiences.
- ** Exceptionally organized** and capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- A **strong communicator**, comfortable interfacing with stakeholders at all levels.
- Proactive and **eager to take on responsibilities**, with an eye for detail and a commitment to excellence.
- ** Fluent in English**.

**Why join us?**:

- ** Defined pathway**: This is a structured 6-month internship designed to immerse you deeply in the workings of Upflow’s CEO office.
- ** International mindset**: We have offices in Paris and New York.
- ** Flexible working**: On-site job in Paris in a hybrid office culture.
- ** All-star team**: Excellent team with deep functional and domain expertise.
- ** Learning opportunity**: Strong focus on learning and growing through education and professional development in hard and soft skills.
- ** Trusting environment**: Hands-off management style. We have a strong culture of ownership and autonomy.
- ** Best in-class perks**: Meal vouchers, welcoming offices, top-of-the-range equipment.
- ** Offsites**: Regular offsites with the team, meetups, and strong connections to the startup ecosystem.

**This is a paid internship, compensated 1,500 EUR per month.**

**Recruitment process**:
**1 - Screening call with Francesca, our Admin & People Manager**

**2 - Home assignment**

Your time to shine You’ll be given a home assignment. Yes, it is designed to assess your skills. But it’s also designed to give you a better taste of what being part of Upflow is like. Again, hiring is a two-way street Ultimately: we believe assignments are a great way to control our biases. We care for what you do; not your schooling, social background, or the gender you identify yourself to.

**3 - Home assignment review & Team interview**

Louis (our fractional Chief of Staff, and your future mentor) and Alexandre (our Finance Director and your future manager), will debrief your case with you. Hiring managers at Upflow are looking for team players: taking and giving feedback is key to thriving with us

**4 - Founder interview**

Meet with Alex, our co-founder & CEO. He will tell you everything about Upflow’s vision and values. It’s a privileged moment to ask questions, too.